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The Iberian Peninsula, that region of the world we now call Spain and Portugal, fell under Islamic rule in 711 AD. While Islamic ...

in the West over the last decade. Unfortunately, much of the increased awareness of this religion has been marred by political age...

now constitute about 1% of the population. The majority (77%) of New Zealand Muslims are overseas-born with the largest proportion...

strategies of Romes Julius Caesar and Claudius, the author emphasizes the role infrastructural development played in wartime strat...

emperor asked the people of Japan to agree to peach "by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable by surrenderin...

Women played many critical roles in World War II. Their impact would have long-lasting effects. This is true not just from the...

past, but seeing it through disillusioned, or "cubist," eyes. Picassos other work under examination, Guernica, is his most analy...

"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

participation and Germany was prohibited from participating because she was the defeated power. Instead, the so-called "big four"...

in the hopes that the French would lend some support.1 "The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation c...

of Change Statistician Walter Shewhart published a work in 1931 describing the benefits of bringing manufacturing under sta...

romanticized and consistent with literature, which always glamorized warfare and sanitized it. Photography does not allow for sani...

not transitory, but a permanent feature. There is the realization that French Muslims will endeavor to maintain a hybrid character...

gays and lesbians within their own ethnic group, one might readily surmise how the lack of religious tolerance is partly to blame ...

in Europe there was a great civilization and a great deal of conflict in relationship to property, economics, politics, and religi...

are vastly different than those pertaining to the First World War, in that it was "almost certainly the largest [catastrophe] in h...

a time of despair and poverty. Some nations were already at war. Japan had launched a full attack against Manchuria in 1931 (Espos...

that the Russians "made very serious mistakes" (Booth 37). In an attempt to avert a secret attack, President Kennedy ordered Prem...

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

can be said that the womens liberation movement had, had a shot in the arm and as was happening south of her shores, in America, w...

Practically on the heels of World War I, where the involved countries had already suffered some amount of loss, they collectively ...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...

History tells us many wars are created not by economic necessity or by political idealism, but those that are long running are oft...

of postwar survival -- that a person who learns a trade and can take care of himself is not only an asset to his own family but to...

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

was putting to death. So then, in defining the Aryans he must also define those that were not acceptable. This is where his di...